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Sheltered employment in five member states of the Council of Europe: Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland
- Authors:
- SAMOY Erik, WATERPLAS Lina
- Publisher:
- Council of Europe
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Strasbourg
Comparative study looking at the situation of sheltered employment in the twelve Member States of the European Union. The data for each country is grouped under the following headings: institutional context; target population; access to sheltered employment; characteristics of the people in sheltered employment; and a discussion of the topics currently under debate around sheltered employment in each country.
Advocacy in the UK
- Authors:
- SIM Allan J., MACKAY Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 9(2), 1997, pp.5-12.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Considers advocacy in the United Kingdom and seeks to illuminate the position currently experienced by advocates and their clients through the use of data recovered from research in the North East of Scotland.
Disability disqualifying clauses in selected countries: focusing on driving licenses and qualifications for medical professionals
- Author:
- SATO Hisao
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy and Social Work, 5, March 1997, pp.21-30.
- Publisher:
- Japan College of Social Work
This article examines the anomalies in legislation in Japan, Europe, Australia and the United States on the eligibility for driving licenses and possibility of gaining qualifications as medical professionals.
Helping disabled people at work
- Author:
- McGINNIS Brian
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 48, Winter 1997, pp.11-14.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Presents some of the key findings from the recently published report, 'Helping disabled people to work: a cross-national study of social security and employment provisions'. The report looks at the UK in comparison with Australia, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden.
Gender differences in abused children with and without disabilities
- Authors:
- SOBSEY Dick, RANDALL Wade, PARRILA Rauno K.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 21(8), August 1997, pp.707-720.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This article looks at the proportions of boys and girls in various categories of substantiated child abuse and whether the gender proportions differ for children with and without disabilities. Finds that more boys were physically abused and neglected, but more girls were sexually abused. Boys with disabilities, however, were over-represented in all categories of abuse. Moreover, gender proportions among abused children with disabilities differed significantly from those found among other abuse children. Several possible explanations for the observed gender and disability status interaction are discussed.
Social policy and the labour market
- Editors:
- DE JONG Philip R., MARMOR Theodore R.
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 733p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Joins micro-economic analysis of social insurance and welfare systems with broader political descriptions of social policy. Gives a sense of the fundamental problem of finding a social welfare system that fits specific economic and cultural conditions. Includes papers on: the Nordic welfare model and the European Union; convergence and divergence in the evolution of the welfare state; private provision of social security; the case for equivalent taxation of social security benefits in the European Union; an international analysis of retirement and economic development; disability and rehabilitation; unemployment insurance; social assistance in comparative perspective; lone mothers, policy and employment in twenty countries; Swedish single parents and social security; social security in Poland in a period of transition; social security reform in the Czech Republic; social security for disabled people in South Africa; China's social security in the context of the national distribution system; and integratability of social welfare systems for a unified Korea.